The Enlightenment, which marked a social and philosophical turn away from religion and toward science and reason, swept across Europe in the eighteenth century, and these civil and rational values w
At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by l
Throughout the eighteenth century, an eversharper distinction emerged between Jews of the old order and those who were self-consciously of a new world. As aspirations for liberation clashed with adhe
Shmuel Feinera??s innovative book recreates the historical consciousness that fired the Haskalaha??the Jewish Enlightenment movement. The proponents of this movement advocated that Jews should capture
The German Socrates,” Moses Mendelssohn (17291786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Berlin celebrity and a major figure in the E
This volume, written by a range of scholars in history and literature, offers a new understanding of one of the central cultural and ideological movements among Jews in modern times. Disengaging the H
